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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Four, College—The Ghost of False Hope.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who phoned the camp to have the young seminarian sent home?
(a) The Board of Education.
(b) No one.
(c) The diocese bishop.
(d) Parents of campers.

2. What does Mel say his relationship to his father is like when Mel is younger?
(a) He felt alienated from his father.
(b) Very close.
(c) Close but Mel could not confide in the man.
(d) He felt afraid of his father.

3. What image does Mel have in his mind from Noni's words?
(a) The gifts of nature.
(b) The light of heaven.
(c) The fires of hell.
(d) None as she was not much of a speaker.

4. In what capacity does Mel serve in his high school?
(a) Student body president.
(b) Captain of the football team.
(c) Captain of the basketball team.
(d) President of the Honor Society.

5. Whom does Mel meet around the end of his senior year in high school?
(a) Gordon H.
(b) A gay college professor.
(c) A gay pastor who is in the closet.
(d) An openly gay Roman Catholic priest.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mel have to restrain when at camps?

2. What does Ted confess to Mel one night?

3. When do Mel and Lyla begin dating?

4. What does Darrel do that made Mel think about the boy obsessively?

5. What does Mel now consider his feelings of love for another man?

(see the answer key)

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